MOSES, Dirk. Forcible child removal & Australian Aboriginal Genocide

A. Dirk Moses teaches European History and Comparative Genocide Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, and edited “Genocide and settler society. Frontier
Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History”, Berghahn Books,
2004 (see: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=MosesGenocide
).

Summary of “ Genocide and settler society. Frontier
Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History” (2004): “Colonial
Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European
genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched
phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for
the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with the arrival of
the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, the authors identify the
moments of radicalization and the escalation of British violence and ethnic
engineering aimed at the Indigenous populations, while carefully distinguishing
between local massacres, cultural genocide, and genocide itself. These essays
reflect a growing concern with the nature of settler society in Australia and
in particular with the fate of the tens of thousands of children who were
forcibly taken away from their Aboriginal families by state agencies. Long
considered a relatively peaceful settlement, Australian society contained many
of the pathologies that led to the exterminatory and eugenic policies of twentieth
century Europe.” [1].